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I have been ask to conduct a seminar for high school seniors beginning carving. Â*I am looking for suggested formats. Â*Has anyone used Mary Duke Guldan Beginners book for this purpose?

a seminar or a semester long class? there might be to much book to cover in a few days. Perhaps you can make or find some sort of a hand out covering a project or technique you plan to use? I think Mary's books would be great teaching aids though with someone to demonstrate the material. Just a layman's thoughts. Good luck,

Dave

Thanks for the 'come back' The class is a one day class with 12 students. It is meant to be an introduction to carving. My hope is to get them started on a smiple project. I was thinking of sending the book home with them.

From what I have seen in Guldan's books, you would need a very long day to complete one of the projects. Probably would be best to provide roughouts or blanks of a caricature type carving which can be done simply with just a knife and maybe a fishtail gouge. As beginners they won't have the tools to do anything complex and probably wouldn't want to make a huge investment until they know if they want to continue carving. You should tell them about the different areas of woodcarving (realistic, chip, caricature, architectural, etc.) so they realize there is more to it than what can be shown in a one day class.

Good luck with your class....

I would start by teaching tools and their proper care and use. And end the day by getting them started on a small project, maybe a smoothy duck decoy, that would be easy, and results are gained quickly. Quick results are important when begining as I'm sure we all remember. Good Luck and let us know how it went!

[Shimmy]

I think the best way for begginers is to start offin a small relief carving.Also I think animals are harder then people.1 day is too short .

mary dukes books are great easy to follow,but for one day class,safety,discuss differnt types of carving,jack price has 2 books out that shows carving 2-3 inche people,could be carved in about 3 hrs,i make about 30 of them each year for christmas presents and they go over good,good luck

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I would like to know what you did and how things worked out. I too teach but want to try more than one days worth.